The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

A thought is an idea in transit.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.